Tom Limoncelli was the speaker for Unigroup's May 2002 meeting
on Internet Collaboration which discussed the various processes
that Tom experienced/invented while writing his first book (with
his co-author Christine Hogan) "The Practice of System and
Network Administration". This book encapsulated years of
practical experience into a comprehensive text that many
administrators would find a useful source of knowledge and
experience.

As System Administrators, we have all felt the time management
problem, especially when supporting people from multiple groups,
departments, or companies. At our November 2005 meeting, Tom
will share some of his insights into the time management problem,
and we hope to learn useful information that spans both Tom's books.

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DIRECTIONS

Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
104 Washington Street
Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City

This building is located on the West side of the street.
Cross Streets: Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.

Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel, North of the Resturant,
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street.
Walking West on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
Washington Streets.

There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the
Battery Tunnel and extending North for a number of blocks.

Tom will be presenting tips from his new book,
"Time Management for System Administrators," published by O'Reilly.

Who has the time for time management!? Users interrupt you
constantly with requests, your managers want you to get
long-term projects done but flood you with requests for
quick-fixed, and the machines you manage just never behave,
causing problems at the most inopportune moments. Tom will
discuss techniques he has developed over the last 15 years
including:

How to find time to get projects done,

The best way to manage interruptions from users,

Open Source tools for tracking requests,

How to turn chaos into free time.

Tom's new book is due out late in November, and it can be pre-ordered
at Amazon (see below, for a 30% off coupon):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007833/tomontime-20

Tom Limoncelli is the co-author of The Practice of System and
Network Administration and author of Time Management for System
Administrators. He has more than 15 years experience as a
sysadmin and has been invited to speak around the world on many
topics. Tom is a co-founder of $GROUPNAME, NJ's Unix Users Group.
You can read his blog on http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com.

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GIVEAWAYS

O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.

Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Addison-Wesley also has a new end-user discount, available
through their User Group program. We will be announcing the
details at our next meeting!

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. many of these books are valued between $30 and $60)!

We also still have some Sun Solaris 10 DVDs from our
friends at the NYC Sun Office.

Tom will bring O'Reilly t-shirts and books to give away, as well
as a copy of his first book. Since his Time Management book
is not in print yet, he will give out coupons for a 30% discount
on pre-orders of his book.